(14 Feb 2002)
1. Heart shape placard burning, pull out to demonstrator offering Valentine's artwork to police
2. Various of police and burning of Valentine's Day heart placard
3. Close-up of Valentine's heart placard, pull out to riot police watching
4. Riot police receiving Valentines heart work from demonstrators
5. Wide of rally and U.S. Embassy
6. Police holding Valentine's artwork
7. Demonstrators holding toy model M16 rifle
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonia Sotto, Protest Leader:
"The U.S. forces are going beyond bounds and we are heartbroken for so many years, for a century even, and so our message is for the U.S. to please leave the Philippines."
9. Various of police and demonstrators outside U.S. Embassy
10. U.S. Embassy sign
11. Demonstrators burning Valentine's placard
STORYLINE:
Anti-US protests continued outside the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines capital of Manila on Thursday.
A group of about 50 women - adopting a Valentine's Day theme for their demonstration by burning heart placards - denounced the presence of U.S. troops in the Philippines.
The women also presented Valentine's hearts to riot police guarding the U.S. Embassy.
The United States has sent troops to the southern Philippines to help train Filipino troops in their fight against Abu Sayyaf guerrillas - a Muslim extremist group.
On Wednesday (February 13) the Philippines and the United States approved the rules covering a controversial joint military exercise aimed at improving the Philippine military's anti-terrorism capability.
The United States has linked the Abu Sayyaf rebel group to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network - prime suspects in the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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